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Thursday, April 28, 2011

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Like all of you, I am simply in a TIZZY waiting to see the royal wedding tomorrow. Or, more accurately, the royal wedding cake.

I mean, think about it: this is the cake that must end all cakes. It has to outshine, outdo, and outhouse every dream of every girl who has ever dreamed of being a princess! [sigh]

Plus, just imagine the unbelievable stress the poor bakers must be under at this very moment. The agony! The suspense! The weighty sense of impending doom, should their one shot at world-wide glory, fame, and adoration fail! BWAHAHAHAAAA!

Er...I mean...

Wishing you the best of luck, guys!

So, what do you think it'll be? Something colorful?

Something modern?

(And...drippy?)

Of course, whatever it is, you know it'll have to be an upstanding specimen...

...with just the right emphasis on the fact that they live in a castle, and you don't:

Hey, maybe it'll be inspired by Kate's wedding dress!

Or maybe it'll just show the couple's deep love and affection for one another:

("Pardon me, your lordship, but would you care for a slice of chocolate thigh?"

"Ruddy good, yes! Tally ho! What what!*")

Well, whatever the outcome tomorrow, I'm sure so long as the bakers don't give the happy couple the cold shoulder, they'll be fine.

*Yes, I know all British people do not sound like this. But the really cool ones do.

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Well, that dress looks simply lovely. I will keep "greasy paper machè" in mind for my own dress. And the castle...is that a sand castle façade? Where have you ever had the need for a 2D, lumpy, white, sand castle cake?WV: Rehest: to detest again. "I tried to find something nice to say about these cakes, but I simply rehest them."

I say old bean, that last cake looks like it might eat you rather than the other way round! Just not cricket, what? Toodle-pip......

All right guv'nor, it's a fair cop, I ain't really posh...but I am British and am being forced to join in the wedding frenzy against my better judgement. Got a street party to go to tomorrow, for crying out loud. Cucumber sandwich anyone?

oh my. would it have been THAT hard to have some arms on that last cake? Even if they ended at the board....at least a little shoulder would have been a little better....although I think cakes that look like people are creepy.... who wants a shoulder? who wants a piece of Kate's head? How about some of the prince's nose? yeah.......

It is with regret that I inform you that very few peoples of this Great Britain still possess the fecundity of language to which you refer. Fortunately this richness of vocabulary is celebrated in some circles, so those of us with the capacity to capitulate to our verbosity are at a distinct advantage when it comes to addressing our admiration of such an appropriate article.As ever, Madam, you have given me cause to smile on an otherwise dreary day. For this you have my eternal thanks.

Wedding wrecks always make me a little sad. How could someone do that to a couple on the day that is supposed to kick off their "Happily Ever After?" The silver lining though: at least these couples get their revenge on the bakers on Cake Wrecks.

As an Anglophile with a 4 year old princess of my own, I'll be watching the wedding (later online - I'm so not a morning person), but now I mostly want to see the cake. I hope it's spectacular, though I fear Drumnate's prediction of boring elegance is the most likely scenario.

I feel sorry for the top layer of the wedding dress cake. It might be passable, if it's bottom didn't look like a paper mache nightmare. It sort of reminds me of the bridal shower game where you have to make a "dress" out of toilet paper. As I recall we ended up wrapping our version more like a mummy bride.

I feel so sorry for the royal couple in a way. All this hoopla over every single detail by the press and the public. I mean, think of all the stress you went through getting married and times that by a billion. I bet they'll be very relieved to have it all over with and try to live as normally as possible.

The sad part is that if they go really (English) traditional the cake will actually be a fruit cake and thus practically 'wrecky' by default, right? It will be interesting to see what they end up having. I want to see the cake but I REALLY want to see the dress!

@mjfin22 wedding cakes are traditionally fruit cake in the UK - looks like they are having two cakes - one made out of chocolate cookies to a secret Royal family recipe -http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12873098

Jen, does it make a difference if the chocolate lovers are actually a really good representation of Rodin's sculpture "The Kiss" WIkipedia's description. The base of weird chocolate fans, definitely puts it on the "wreck" list, though.

That first cake's colours are just - w-o-w. Did they ask for carmine and burgundy to match that (ahem) topper, and the bakers thought that orange and purple were close enough. J made a victorian sponge cake using the favourite recipe of Queen Victoria. It didn't turn out so well (completely fell apart when removing from pan). It is now being turned into trifle, another British favourite.To see some past royal wedding cakes, check out People.com here.

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#1 I get it -- Harlequin Romance, right? No, I don't read them, I've seen them advertised. The best literal is one that makes ya work a little for the reference.

#2 A tad warm in there, was it? Suddenly I want hamburgers -- the good kind that drip everywhere.

#3 I don't buy this being accidental -- the center of gravity is spot on. (Oh dear, it's spreading.)

#4 Just maybe the intent here was to evoke Hearst Castle; you know, the early, early design phase when young William Randolph was down at the beach at San Simeon, playing in the sand and dreaming...

#5 This one actually has potential; I wonder what it looked like when it was completed. (Zing!)

#6 Aww. The touching finale to '(Making) Love on Poo Mountain', the timeless tale of two naked volcanologists who discover just a tad too late that they have the hots for each other. I could ask what happened to his other leg, but I'm more concerned by her seeming lack of a head. Maybe she should have followed his example and kept her helmet on.*

#7 His effigy looks like 'Butt-Head'. Someone obviously put a *lot* of time into getting way fanatic with the details -- at least on her -- so it may be that time didn't allow the arms to be included. I hope it's something like that, because my first emergency backup theory is that the wreckerator is a fan of Sam Peckinpah. My second EBT is that the wreckerator went literal with the phrase, 'off-the-shoulder'.

*Yes, I know it's a representation of a Rodin sculpture (and am frankly surprised it didn't trigger an EPCOT volcano of its own). I'm just having something called 'fun' with it, m'kay?

This world of the network is fantastic, I found your blog from one to another despite the distance that separates us, I love your designs and your cakes are an authentic sculptures, no doubt that I often go to see your wonders. Greetings from Spain ;)

Wow...that last one is so...(impressive? ambitious?....disturbing?). :)

I was going to get in the Wedding spirit today with some cupcake fail of my own - my mother baffled me by mailing me a Union Jack flah teatowel, Union Jack cake cases (both not exactly considered cool here in Scotland, except possibly as a joke...) and some really worrying little pots of red and blue glitter that say 'EdAble Art - coatings brilliant and transperentnontoxic' that she claims we can put on cakes? If I stop being baffled long enough, I might try and turn these into something today...which will probably be worthy of a future Patrotic Cake Wreck post!

Sadly old bean, I don't believe you will get to see the Royal Cake today as the reception is not televised (nobody wants to risk Prince Harry's best man's speech getting out into the public domain).

Do you yanks not make your wedding cakes from fruit cake? It's always fruit cake, marzipan and icing - better structural integrity for balancing multiple tiers. Plus it lasts forever, and you are supposed to save a slice for the christening of your first child, apparently! (NB, I don't know anyone who's done this.)

N.B. I've just eaten a piece of the actual royal wedding cake - see, they do last forever! - and it was lovely! I'm not a great fan of fruitcake (although I do love marzipan and icing) but this was great. The box it came in was even better, a lovely little white tin box with their coat of arms, names and the wedding date printed/painted on it with swirly gold lettering... Really nice!

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